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🎬🌐 The biggest tech move today: Netflix agreed to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery (incl. HBO Max) for about $83B, a deal widely described as reshaping Hollywood’s future. Sources: heiseNYTTCTechCentral
🇨🇭🔋 Swiss local: Energy Vault deployed its first grid storage system in Switzerland (qualified by Swissgrid), marking a step in local flexibility and resilience. [Source: startupticker
🇪🇺📱 EU enforces the Digital Services Act: the Commission fined X for transparency failings, signaling tighter oversight of large platforms. [Sources: heiseNYT
🇺🇸💻 AWS doubles down on custom silicon and AI hardware at re:Invent, previewing next-gen Graviton processors and accelerators while customers weigh readiness for rapid AI adoption. [Sources: heiseTC
🎨📽️ Tech culture: Lucasfilm will re-release Star Wars (1977) in its original theatrical cut for the 50th anniversary—with restored picture but without later edits. [Source: heise
🛰️🛡️ Dual‑use: Germany’s Federal Police introduced a dedicated drone‑countermeasure unit to protect critical sites from espionage, sabotage and airspace disruption. [Source: heise
🏛️📜 Policy: Berlin passed a policing law allowing covert entry into suspects’ homes to install state trojans for IT surveillance—raising civil-liberties debates over intrusive investigative powers. [Source: heise
🌏🇰🇷 Connectivity in Asia: SpaceX’s Starlink launched nationwide in South Korea with residential and enterprise plans, bringing LEO broadband to one of the world’s fastest internet markets. [Source: The Korea Herald
💶🌍 Economics: The EU is far off its green‑hydrogen deployment targets, with costs still ~4× higher than fossil alternatives; the EU energy agency urges urgent regulatory action. [Source: heise
🤖🧠 AI: Generative‑AI legal tensions escalate—OpenAI was ordered to disclose chat logs in a copyright case; NYT sued Perplexity; Meta is pursuing content licensing deals, per reports. [Sources: heiseNYT
♻️🔋 Sustainability: Project “Lionheart” will pair deep‑geothermal heat with domestic lithium extraction in Germany’s Upper Rhine Graben—funding is in place for a multi‑billion‑euro rollout. [Source: heise
🍽️🔬 Food tech: CJ OliveNetworks is digitizing Korea’s F&B production with smart‑factory and logistics systems (e.g., soju brand Hwayo), pushing AI‑driven quality and efficiency. [Source: The Korea Herald
🧬🩺 Longevity & health: A German hospital linked patient wristbands via Bluetooth to map contacts among patients, devices, and rooms—accelerating infection‑chain detection and intervention. [Source: heise
💰📈 Funding: Swiss cooling‑tech startup Corintis raised an additional $25M (Series A1) to scale chip‑level liquid cooling for denser, more energy‑efficient data centers. [Source: startupticker
🧑🔬✨ Remarkable individual: At NASA Armstrong, chief pilot Justin Hall (with engineer Justin Link) is building a new subscale research aircraft to support complex flight experiments—expanding how NASA prototypes future flight. [Source: NASA
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